Rick Lazio

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Last fundraising-related post of the day...

Remember how more than half of Rick Lazio's donors in the 2000 Senate race came from out of state?

That was nothing, apparently, by the standards of Candidates Running Against Hillary Clinton.

John Spencer, who listed 39,000 people as donors in the last fundraising period, has drawn 90 percent of his campaign cash so far from outside New York, according to his campaign.

-- Josh Benson

The League of Women Voters holds its annual awards luncheon.

Nick Perry will endorse Yvette Clarke for Congress on the steps of Brooklyn Borough Hall.

Good Counsel Homes holds its annual Ball for Life.

The New York State Conservative Party holds its 44th Anniversary Dinner at the Sheraton, with guests Sam Brownback, John Faso, Mary Donohue, Rick Lazio, Grover Norquist, Curtis Silwa, and Joe Bruno.

—Nicole Brydson

A few days ago, The Politicker referred to Ellis Verdi, Freddy's new adman, as having had an "abortive cameo" in Hillary Clinton's 2000 race, which isn't quite right, and which is a reminder about not being glib about stuff one doesn't know that much about.

Verdi, who now seems to be one of a few new hands, had more than a cameo on the campaign, producing an ad which got attention Upstate by casting Rick Lazio as an ostrich on the topic of the local economy, accompanied by a guy in an ostrich suit at Lazio events.

The "abortive" reference, though, was to an interesting little fight within the Clinton campaign in which Verdi was on the losing side. As Mike Tomasky writes in his book on the race, Verdi wanted Clinton to address some of the knocks on her, notably "carpetbagger," directly.

He proposed, for example, a spot that showed her policy agenda emerging from a carpetbag.

But Clinton's main media advisors, Mandy Grunwald and Mark Penn, pushed back, and persuaded Clinton to stick with a more traditional media campaign.

"Penn and Grunwald's strategy was not a great hit with the press," Tomasky notes. "But it's the voters who matter."  read more »

Which is to say that we in the press are looking forward to Freddy's next round of ads.

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When Senator Hillary Clinton's image loops on the cable news these days, she's likely to be seen as  read more »

We may once have mocked Republican Senate candidate Adam Brecht, but the guy has a point when he notes to us that in today's Marist Poll of Hillary vs. GOP matchups, he falls within the same roughly-30% statistical clump as Rick Lazio, Jeanine Pirro, and Ed Cox; and only a tick beneath George Pataki. In other words, nobody seems to have heard of any of these people. If Rudy doesn't run, 2006 could be one boring year.  read more »

With Governor George Pataki due to give his annual State ofthe State speech even as a certain new De  read more »

Don't blame me if Al Gore loses the recounts, the lawsuits,the whole damn election.  read more »

History will remember Election Day 2000 for its uncertain result.  read more »

In the first election of the new century, New Yorkers chose First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton as the  read more »

Hillary, we hardly know ye."I think people know everything there is to know about me," the confidenc  read more »

Friends, you have no idea how hard it's going to be to keep you entertained for the next 800 words.  read more »

A cheer arose from several hundred Republican men, women and children gathered at an outdoor rally i  read more »

Representative Rick Lazio has sent a fund raising letter to the chairman of the New York chapter of  read more »

At the dawn of the last century, the surviving members of the Civil War generation took their bows,  read more »

At the dawn of the last century, the surviving members of the Civil War generation took their bows,  read more »

Hillary Rodham Clinton is a brilliant candidate.It took this reporter one year, three months and two  read more »

When Mike Murphy came to New York last spring to take charge of Rick Lazio's Senate campaign, the st  read more »

Political candidates of limited imagination never fail to remind us that elections are about the fut  read more »

An advance man for Rick Lazio sprinted frantically alongside his boss at the Columbus Day Parade on  read more »

Rick Lazio withdrew a folded campaign flyer from his pocket as he sat on a stage alongside the grand  read more »

At a recent dinner party, we inevitably got around to the sex-roles conundrum of the hour: Hillary C  read more »

"No voters ever talk to me about soft money," said Hillary Rodham Clinton on the sodden afternoon of  read more »

Forgive me, readers, for I have sinned: I missed the debate between the two Senate candidates.  read more »

Rick Lazio, grinning, crouched to embrace a group of children at an elementary school in Rochester,  read more »

"We wanted to see how this whole soft-money thing shakes out," said Kelli Conlin, executive director  read more »

Why do spontaneous gestures during political debates always seem so well-rehearsed?  read more »

In Anthony Trollope's Palliser novels, one of the subplots is how can Phineas Finn, the young Irish  read more »

As the New York Senate race devolves into a desperate scramble for undecided Jewish voters, and each  read more »

In a state that prefers Republicans in moderation, New York's environmentalists often find themselve  read more »

Tanned and smiling after a short vacation in East Hampton, Rick Lazio kicked off the critical home s  read more »

The selection of Senator Joe Lieberman as Al Gore's running mate has dramatically changed the electo  read more »

Rick Lazio has two daughters. You may have noticed. In fact, how could you not have noticed?  read more »

Mike Murphy, the fast-talking media adviser to Republican Senatorial candidate Rick Lazio, held an I  read more »

There was something about the sunglasses."I think that one of my problems in communicating effective  read more »

Without any primary contests to preoccupy the would-be heirs of Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the New Yor  read more »

They are a perfectly matched pair of antagonists, two relentlessly ambitious politicians who have lo  read more »

"It is the goddamnest thing that nobody wants to talk about those things."Speaking was the man who w  read more »

Not long after Rick Lazio officially took his place as the Republican Party's nominee for U.S.  read more »

Rick Lazio, surrounded by a tight ring of cameras, crouched down on a rooftop playground at a child  read more »

With his anointment as the Republican Party's official nominee to succeed Daniel Patrick Moynihan as  read more »

Hillary Clinton has a new opponent, but that does not change the case against her.She is no more a N  read more »

Oh, God, it's the mutual moral outrage again.Ever since the dramatic exit of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani  read more »

In the days after a wistful Rudolph Giuliani dropped out of the race for the U.S.  read more »

Back in August, not long after Governor George Pataki said Mayor Rudolph Giuliani "had earned the ri  read more »

The sudden emergence of representative Rick Lazio as the Republican Party's champion against Hillary  read more »